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Devil's River. Seven females, one collected by Pratt, the others 

 by Bishopp, May 3 to 6, at flowers of Marilaunidium, origanifolium, 

 Gaillardia pulchella, and sumach. 



Del Rio. One female, May 8 (Bishopp). 



Weatherford. Three females, June 9, at Monarda (C. R. Jones). 



Wolfe City. One female, at Helenium tenuifolium, May 31 

 (Bishopp). 



Wichita Falls. Two females, at Monarda, June 11 (C. R. Jones). 



Llano. One female, May 20 (W. D. Pierce). 



Mineral W[ell?]. Two females, June 9, at Monarda (Jones). 



Brownsville. Two females, at Monarda citriodora, March 23 (Jones 

 and Pratt). 



DASYPODA JAPONICA, new species. 



Almost exactly like D. plumipes Panzer (hirtipes Latreille), but in 

 the female the head is broader, with the eyes more diverging above, 

 the black hair on dorsum of thorax is less abundant, the middle tibiae 

 and tarsi have purplish-sooty hair on outer side, and the hind tibiae 

 and tarsi are more or less ornamented in the same manner. The only 

 male seen is headless, but it is like a rather small pale plumipes; the 

 sixth ventral segment is broadly shallowly emarginate. 



Habitat. — Japan (Mitsukuri), one female (type) in U. S. National 

 Museum; Japan, 10 females, 1 male, in Berlin Museum. The Berlin 

 Museum specimens appear to have been in some liquid, and the 

 pubescence is matted. 



The tibiae and'tarsi of the male (except for the hair) are black, 

 whereas in D. tibialis Morawitz from Mongolia they are rufo- 

 testaceous. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13540, U.S.N.M. 



EUCERA SOCIABILIS Smith. 



Female. — Length about 14 mm.; black, without light markings on 

 face; hair of vertex and thorax above pale yellowish, not mixed with 

 black; hair of face, sides of thorax, etc., paler, to yellowish white, but 

 that of labrum distinctly ochreous; head broad, facial quadrangle a 

 little broader than long; clypeus strongly and very densely punctured, 

 but shining; antennae entirely dark, third joint almost as long as 

 4 + 5; mesothorax closely punctured at sides, but in middle with 

 strong, widely separated punctures on a shining ground; scutellum 

 with dense small punctures, entirely contrasting with middle of 

 mesothorax; tegulae ferruginous; wings dusky; hair on inner side of 

 hind basitarsus ferruginous; abdominal segments 3 to 5 with broad 

 dark chocolate basal bands; 2 to 4 with broad white apical bands, 

 that on" 2 very broadly, that on 3 narrowly, interrupted; apex of fifth 

 segment with pale brown hair. 



